It shouldn’t be that way at all. The normal way to save progress while you’re editing a file is to type :w followed by the Enter key. If you do this, Vim should write (or overwrite) the file on disk, resulting in a maximum of one file. (I’m ignoring the hidden temporary file.)
It shouldn’t be that way at all. The normal way to save progress while you’re editing a file is to type
:wfollowed by the Enter key. If you do this, Vim should write (or overwrite) the file on disk, resulting in a maximum of one file. (I’m ignoring the hidden temporary file.)